God hates figs

God hates figs is a slogan commonly invoked in counter-protests to the protests of the Westboro Baptist Church. A parody of their all-capitals "God hates fags" signs, the counter-protest signs often invoke a passage in the Biblical book of Matthew to justify the claim about God and his feelings about figs.
Invocation
The signs have been noted at counter-protests at the University of Chicago; in Spartanburg, South Carolina; and in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as at the Rally to Restore Sanity. The use of the signs has been invoked as a sign of sanity by the ACLU and others. in which Jesus says that none should eat the fruit of a fig tree (), in which Jesus causes a fig tree to wither (), and in which Lord declares, as a punishment, to make someone like bad figs (). These are genuine citations, but are not the sole mentions of figs in the Bible.

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